Professor Andrew John Anderson Holland

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Fields of Research (FoR)

Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine not elsewhere classified

Biography

Andrew Holland qualified MB, BS from St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical and the University of London in 1988, after obtaining a BSc with Honours in Anatomy from the Middlesex Hospital Medical School of the same university in 1985. Following his initial postgraduate surgical training in London and Oxford, he became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1992. Migrating to Australia, he trained in General and Paediatric Surgery in Perth, Adelaide and Sydney before obtaining his FRACS in Paediatric Surgery in 1998. As a Surgeon Scientist Scholar of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, he was awarded a PhD from the University of Sydney in 2002. In the same year he commenced as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney and Senior Staff Specialist at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead. He obtained a degree in Educational Studies in 2004 and became foundation Director of The Children’s Hospital Burns Research Institute a year later. Promoted to Associate Professor in 2005, he was given a personal chair in Paediatric Surgery in 2010. Professor Holland has over 250 publications in the peer reviewed literature and has been awarded collaborative international research grants and scholarships.

My Grants

IMPROVING HEALTH OUTCOMES IN CHILDREN SUFFERING MAJOR INJURY
National Health and Medical Research Council (n/a, Australia)
2014-01-01 to 2019-01-01|Grant

GRANT_NUMBER: 1092499

URL: https://grants.uberresearch.com/501100000925/1092499/IMPROVING-HEALTH-OUTCOMES-IN-CHILDREN-SUFFERING-MAJOR-INJURY

Burn injuries in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
National Health and Medical Research Council (n/a, Australia)
2014-01-01 to 2017-01-01|Grant

GRANT_NUMBER: 1059038
URL: https://grants.uberresearch.com/501100000925/1059038/Burn-injuries-in-Aboriginal-an

My Qualifications

BSc (Hons)

MB BS

PhD

Grad Cer Ed Studies (Higher Ed)

FRCS (Eng)

FRACS (Paed)

FACS

My Awards

Sir Roy McCaughey Surgical Research Scholarship, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (1998)

Surgeon Scientist Scholarship, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (1999-2001)

Australasian Trauma Society Travelling Scholarship (2004)

Faculty of Medicine Award for Teaching Excellence (Joint), University of Sydney (2004)

Award for Collective Excellence in Teaching and Learning, University of Sydney (2009)

Child and Adolescent Teaching Award, Northern Clinical School, University of Sydney (2012)

My Research Activities

Professor Holland has burn injury as one of his key research interests, in collaboration with A/Professor John Harvey. He has introduced and developed the role of Laser Doppler Imaging in the diagnosis and management of burn injuries in children, with his first description of the evaluation of this technology in children one of the top 10 cited articles in the burns literature published since 2000. Professor Holland continues to collaborate with international colleagues in the development of this imaging modality as a tool for the objective evaluation of burn scars.

Burns remain an injury linked to social disadvantage and indigenous status. In conjunction with Professor Rebecca Ivers and several Australian burn surgeons, Professor Holland has been evaluating the barriers to optimal care in this important group of patients. One of the key elements of success of this research has been the inclusion and involvement as researchers of colleagues of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent.

Long-term neurodevelopmental and functional outcomes in children following surgery remains another research focus of Professor Holland's research, in collaboration with Professor Nadia Badawi AM and Professor Natasha Nassar. This work continues to examine the potential links between early surgery, the associated anaesthesia and later neurodevelopmental outcomes in children, as well as critical linkage evaluation of current datasets to evaluate current surgical treatment models, including hypospadias and undescended testes.

Paediatric trauma remains a major cause of disability and mortality in children, with even small improvements in care likely to have a significant impact for the injured child and their family. Professor Holland has collaborated with Professor Danny Cass, Professor Kate Curtis and A/Professor Rebecca Mitchell to achieve a better understanding of current models of care with a view to developing enhanced trauma care outcomes, especially for those children that have suffered major trauma.